Century of Negro Progress Exhibition
American festival in 1963
Chicago · United States of America
⚠️ This festival is recorded as discontinued.
🗓️ When?
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- Month
- August (derived from the date)
📍 Where?
- Town
- Chicago
- Country
- United States of America
- How precise?
- coordinate of the venue
This position is the town's, not the festival ground's.
ℹ️ Details
- Status
- discontinued
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The Century of Negro Progress Exhibition was a festival from August 16 to September 2, 1963 held in McCormick Place, Chicago, U.S., in honor and celebration of the centennial anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) that freed enslaved African Americans.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article „Century of Negro Progress Exhibition“ (en.wikipedia.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.
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